Latest Alabama Headlines
All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Republicans Gain Control in State Houses
Nov 4 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great...
Alabama Weighs 12.4% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 2 2010 // Alabama insurance officials will consider an industry proposal to lower workers’ compensation loss costs in the state at a public hearing tomorrow in Montgomery. Citing reduced claims frequency, workers’...
Alabama Wind Pool Restricts Insuring Buildings Built In or Over Water
Nov 1 2010 // The Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association, the state’s wind insurer of last resort, will stop issuing policies for buildings standing in or built over water. Manager Bob Groves said the association is worried...
Alabama City Denies Workers’ Compensation for Injured Off-Duty Cop
Oct 29 2010 // Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said the city is not able to grant workers’ compensation benefits to the family of injured police Cpl. David Brown. The family filed a lawsuit against the city seeking the benefits for...
Nationwide Settles Dispute Over Alabama Employees’ Retirement Plan
Oct 29 2010 // Alabama state employees who relied on a deferred compensation plan from Nationwide Retirement Solutions will receive $16 million in a settlement of lawsuits over millions in fees that were paid to a lobbying group for...
Alabama Study: School Bus Seat Belt Money Better Spent at Crossings
Oct 27 2010 // School buses are safe enough without seat belts and students in many cases ignore a requirement to wear them, according to a study in Alabama released this week that found the straps would save the life of about one child...
Alabama Wind Pool: No New Policies on Buildings Built Over Water
Oct 25 2010 // The state’s insurer of last resort, the Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association, will stop issuing policies for buildings standing in or built over water. The association provides coverage for wind damage, but...
Court Upholds Conviction of Former Alabama Insurance CEO Goff
Oct 25 2010 // A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a former Montgomery insurance executive who was once a major supplier of workers compensation insurance in the Southeast. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Tort Reform Takes Back Seat in Alabama’s Race for Governor
Oct 18 2010 // Huge jury verdicts, once potent political issues in a state known as “tort hell,” are getting little mention in this year’s race for Alabama governor. Dr. Robert Bentley, the Republican nominee, has...
It Figures
Oct 18 2010 // 1,394 The number of miners participating in a settlement with Dow Chemical Co. and Flexible Products Co. in an Alabama court over the miners’ claims they were exposed to hazardous chemicals. The surprise settlement...
Alabama Gov. Riley, AG King Clash Over BP lawsuit
Oct 4 2010 // BP PLC has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, according to the state’s attorney general, Troy King. BP denied the claim because...
Alabama Seeks Plan for Coastal Recovery from Gulf Oil Disaster
Oct 1 2010 // A world-class convention center in Gulf Shores. Low-fare airline service at Mobile Regional Airport. A permanent solution to Alabama’s coastal insurance crisis. Those ideas and dozens more were flying through the...
Alabama Students Learn Driver Safety from Simulation Software
Oct 1 2010 // Heather Myers, 18, will tell you she has texted while driving, but she’s quick to point out it’s only in an emergency. “I’ve never texted when I’m on the highway, though,” said the...
Dow Settles Hazardous Chemical Exposure Claims with Alabama Miners
Sep 29 2010 // Dow Chemical Co. and Flexible Products Co. settled with nearly 1,400 miners in an Alabama court over the miners’ claims they were exposed to hazardous chemicals, Dow said Tuesday. The surprise settlement involving...
Alabama Expects Billions from BP for Oil Spill Impact
Sep 28 2010 // Alabama expects to receive billions of dollars in penalties from BP Plc in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a state commission said Monday. BP and the White House will probably soon reach an agreement on...
BP Denies Alabama Claim Over Oil Spill
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state’s attorney general, Troy King, said Friday. BP denied the claim because...
Alabama’s Protective Life Acquires United Investors Life
Sep 14 2010 // Protective Life Corporation, of Birmingham, Ala., today announced that its principal subsidiary, Protective Life Insurance Company, has signed an agreement to acquire United Investors Life Insurance Company from Liberty...
Gulf States’ Post-Katrina Building Codes Get Low Marks
Sep 6 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building codes in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to the Institute for Business and Home Safety. “While there have...
How Katrina Changed Markets
Sep 6 2010 // Industry Came Through Five years after Hurricane Katrina lashed the coast and sunk New Orleans, it is true that the area has largely recovered, but it is not the same Gulf Coast it once was. The same is true for the...
Hurricane Katrina Changed the Market in Gulf States
Sep 6 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls. “Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
